The Amazon One naked payments system is officially on its way to select Whole Foods locations. The technology will first appear at the Whole Foods Market store at Madison Broadway […]

US District Judge James Robart has issued a pair of rulings that will likely set an important precedent for future lawsuits involving Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The rulings […]

According to reports from multiple news outlets, retail giant Amazon plans on installing biometrically-enabled cameras in the vehicles of third-party delivery drivers and requiring the drivers to consent to having […]

“…Amazon One won’t just be used to process payments, but will be used to gain access to the store.” Amazon has officially unveiled its palm-based biometric payments system – and […]

Tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google are the subjects of the latest high-profile lawsuits for privacy violations under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which prohibits the capture or […]

Amazon is following IBM’s lead and is no longer allowing law enforcement agencies to use its facial recognition technology. However, Amazon’s decision comes with a few more caveats. While IBM […]

Synaptics has become the latest member of Amazon’s Voice Interoperability Initiative, and will now be working with the tech giant to improve the utility of IoT products with more than […]

San Francisco-based Inference Solutions, maker of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), has announced the newest version of its Inference Studio platform including the new Verbatim Audio feature for tuning speech recognition […]

The same kind of machine learning-produced racial biases found in some facial recognition technologies are also in play in speech recognition, according to new research from Stanford Engineering. In a […]

The Washington State House of Representatives and the Senate have reached an agreement on new legislation regulating the use of facial recognition technology. Under the newly-passed Senate Bill 6280 — […]